A/N: Here's chapter two! I'm trying to keep it enjoyable and lighthearted. Please review!

"What did you two say to your Onee-chan?"

The twins' cheeks puffed up and they began to pout. "Why do you automatically assume we're the reason Miku's gone?!" Rin protested. "She could've been kidnapped!"

She was looking up at Meiko, who, in front of Kaito and Luka in some sort of gang pose looked pretty intimidating. Rin almost expected Kaito to pound his fist in his hand and Luka to draw a finger across her neck.

"But it was you, wasn't it?"

"Onee-chan's just overly sensitive about her English!" Len said, putting his hands out as if to say 'it's not our fault.'

"Hah! So you admit to saying something to her?"

"Maybe!"

"You know she's probably lost in the city now, crying her eyes out until three scraggly men corner her in an alley…" Meiko reached out slowly to the teens, "with their hands out like demons as they slowly approach her with a hungry look in their eyes, whispering 'Ranbara, ranbara…"*

"Meiko-san!"

Luka put her hand on the older woman's shoulder. The blondes were clutching each other with tears in their eyes and frightened looks on their faces.

"You're going to scare them to death!"

Meiko looked shocked for a moment, dropped her hands then laughed and waved her them embarrassedly. "I'm sorry, kids, I got carried away, please don't cry—"

"WE HAVE TO SAVE ONEE-CHAN!"

Rin and Len grabbed their bags and started running to the exit where Miku's wig still sat, looking limp and quite sad.

"Meiko-nee!" Rin called over her shoulder. "Hurry up! We have to get the car and then search for Miku!"

"Kids!" Meiko reached a hand out to them and then sighed.

"If I may speak—" Kaito began.

"No!" Meiko whacked him with a hard hand. "You may not!"

"ONEE-CHAN!"

Again Miku was suddenly tackled by two people with the same face and opposite gender.

"Are you okay?" Rin looked the older girl over, noting her dirty clothes.

"Of course I am," she replied. "Did you and the adults get the car and drive here?"

"Yeah. But Meiko-nee almost killed us because she kept driving on the wrong side of the road. All we gotta do now is park, sign in, get our set list, pick up our costumes, go down to the Hammerstein Ballroom to rehearse…actually, that's a lot."

"I'm just glad we're here now."

"Meeeee toooooo." And they snuggled closer.

"Hello, we're the Shion family, and we'd like to check in."

"Ehhh?! You finally married Onii-chan, Meiko-nee?"

Meiko leaned down and whispered behind her hand. "Look, kids, I said that me and Kaito are your parents so we could get the family deal. And what's with you saying 'finally'?!" she slapped Len.

Len rubbed his face. "You're cheap, Onee-chan."

Meiko crossed her arm then straightened up again. "Hey, checker-inner, did ya hear me?"

Luka put a hand on her shoulder. "I'll take care of this, Meiko-san."

And the pink haired woman amazed the five other Vocaloids with her amazing English.

"Uwah~! Luka-nee's amazing!"

Meiko pouted. "I thought my accent was understandable enough. That desk man must just be stupid."

They all silently nodded to avoid the red lady's wrath.

"I got the set list! It came in the mail a few minutes before we arrived."

"I got the gift baskets that were left at the door!"

"I got Onee-chan's wig!"

"I got…the luggage…"

Kaito almost collapsed under the weight of the many bags that were stacked on his back by order of Meiko. With a huff of air, he dropped them on one of the beds and then sank into a nearby chair.

"Look at these songs we're singing! Wanna hear them?" Rin waved the papers in her hand.

Four Vocaloids turned to her with anticipation on their faces. The fifth let out a strange gurgling sound.

"Sharing the World is first—"

"WHAT?!" Miku, now in dry clothes, started pulling her hair in worry. "I don't wanna sing that song! It's hard and…and…IT'S IN ENGLISH!"

"Man, I'm just doing Kokoro and Melancholic again. I do that every time now! I remember the good old days when I sang Daughter of Evil and the band would get so into Meltdown with me…Oh, Len, you're doing Fire Flower and Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder. Without me. AGAIN."

Len sighed. "I liked performing Spice and Servant of Evil. It was really strange to see so many people crying in one room."

Rin nodded. "It was like a musical with such an intriguing story!" She looked down at the list again.

"Hey Luka-nee, guess what? They're bringing back Just Be Friends!"

The pinkette clasped her hands together. "Really?"

"In English, though."

Luka looked disappointed. "The English lyrics are so much less poetic. But less cold-hearted too, so I don't mind."

"Onii-chan is doing Pane dhira and Meiko-nee is doing Piano Forte Scandal."

"Same old, same old, I guess."

"Oh, and Miku, you have the same songs except no Rolling Girl. They replaced it with Glass Wall. It's supposed to make everyone cry."

"No Rolling Girl? That song makes me cry! That's seriously the deepest song I have. You and Len are the best actors, so you get all the meaningful songs… Do you have the lyrics for Glass Wall? I wanna see if it's a fair replacement."

Rin shuffled through the papers. "Here are the lyrics for all the English songs."

"It's in English?! Wait, lemme read that. 'Do you see me, the pixels on your screen, my voice that reaches you, blah blah…I would sing out my heart…then it says in all caps 'DUBSTEP.'"

"Crypton is really pushing us to appeal to Americans, huh?"

"Mmm."

All six sat in silence for the next few minutes, tired from the flight and thinking hard about what needed to be done in the next two weeks.

*This is a reference to the song In a Rainy Town Balloons Dance with Devils.

New vocabulary:

-san...honorfic used at end of names for general respect